Holy Saturday

Saturday

 

Emptiness.

Death.

Loss.

 

There are no words to describe the pain of the day after Jesus has died.  Even the Gospel of Mark is silent.

 

Hope is gone.

 

We enter into the silence of this day.

 

And we pray.

 

Pray that this will not be the end.

 

O God,

We have lost our footing 

And we don’t know where to go

Or what to say.

 

When the world’s pain overwhelms us;

When the sting of death is paralyzing;

When the silence of emptiness is too much;

Embrace us and sit with us.

Help us to know, 

To truly know

 

That you’ve got us.

 

You always have us.

 

Amen.